I don't see them very often, but for once I was lucky and encountered a Fire Goldcrest.
The fire goldcrest resembles a goldcrest, but with even brighter colours. The crown and side crest stripes are about the same, but the Fire-breasted Goldcrest has a contrasting white eyebrow stripe and below it a jet-black eye stripe through the eye. This gives the head of this particularly small bird a fiery appearance. The male, instead of yellow, has an all-bright orange crest stripe. But besides the difference in appearance, song, biotope, migratory behaviour and lifestyle actually make it a completely different bird (source: Vogelbescherming).
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